Plate 3rd. H.M. Frigate Pique.In tow of the French Brig Suffren, which canted her head in the direction desired. She having remain'd ungovernable the previous 24 Hours with loss of Rudder and making 3 feet water p.r hour. [&] Plate 4th. H.M. Frigate Pique As she appear'd in Dock at Portsmouth, Shewing the entire destruction to her Keels, Fore Foot & Garboard, from beating on the Rocks off Cape Forteau, on the Coast of Labradore 22nd Septr 1835.
Drawn on Stone by I.C. Shetkey, R.N. College, Trives & Maynard, Printer.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Two scarce lithographs (of four) Sheets 255 x 390mm (10 x 15¼"). Repaired tear in edge, some creasing.
Two plates of four recounting the story of HMS Pique, a wooden fifth-rate sailing frigate designed by Sir William Symonds and lauched 1834. Having survived an eleven-hour struggle to get off a granite reef off the coast of Labrador, Captain Rous and his crew managed the 1,500-mile journey to Guernsey in the leaking and rudderless vessel.
[Ref: 48449] £190.00
[n.d., c.1840.]
Two scarce lithographs (of four) Sheets 255 x 390mm (10 x 15¼"). Repaired tear in edge, some creasing.
Two plates of four recounting the story of HMS Pique, a wooden fifth-rate sailing frigate designed by Sir William Symonds and lauched 1834. Having survived an eleven-hour struggle to get off a granite reef off the coast of Labrador, Captain Rous and his crew managed the 1,500-mile journey to Guernsey in the leaking and rudderless vessel.
[Ref: 48449] £190.00